Rent a Tesla: EV car sharing arrives in WA

While car sharing has already landed in WA users have, up until this point, only been able to rent petrol or diesel vehicles.

That has officially changed with the listing of the first Perth-based Tesla on electric vehicle car sharing app Evee last month.

Evee director Slava Kozlovskii.

Evee director Slava Kozlovskii said Tesla owners had previously expressed interest in listing their cars, but they couldn't get it off the ground up until a few weeks ago when WA tech entrepreneur Joshua Portlock listed his Tesla model 3.

"We had a rental for him straight away, so it's finally starting here in Perth," he said.

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Mr Kozlovskii started the business in 2016 with just one Tesla.

"We started in April 2016 with what was Australia's first Tesla available for rent. A few months later we realised the demand was higher for just one vehicle so we started looking for private owners who wanted to rent their vehicles out," he said.

He said one of the biggest roadblocks for the platform was high premiums on standard car insurance policies for EVs and he has spent the past three years convincing underwriters of the hardiness of the vehicles.

He won that battle and now offers a specialised policy for users wanting to list their car on the app.

"We had to work with the underwriter to prove the vehicles are here to stay and we as a company are here to stay," he said.

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"It is a very important differentiation point, we had to prove to the underwriter that it was important for them to start working on this early and understand the vehicles better.

"Change is inevitable."

RAC WA data suggests cars in WA are parked 96 per cent of the time and the annual cost of running a car is on the rise, sitting at just under $12,000, the equivalent to $215 a week.